Outrageously bad journalism here. Zeldin didn't answer the question on health impacts and CBS rewarded him with this headline. The real answer, based on EPA's OWN analysis: the rollbacks will cause 200,000 deaths and 100 MILLION asthma attacks. www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/epafacts/fac...

Also see this by @zealan.bsky.social, who oversaw BIL and IRA implementation at EPA. zealan.substack.com/p/epa-citiba...

To be clear, the $20 billion fraud claim is an outright lie. Even Trump's EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, has admitted that "there is zero reason to suspect any wrongdoing" and a federal prosecutor resigned rather than pursue a false allegattion. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The math on this is scary. The only way to cut 65% of EPA funding is to cut EPA's clean drinking water grants to states. State grants account for about 40% of EPA's annual budget. Here's the thing: 60% of the clean water grants EPA gave out under Biden went to states that Trump won.

And then this attempted walk back from the White House: “After recently identifying $20 billion fraudulent in spending, Administrator Zeldin is committed to eliminating 65% of the EPA’s wasteful spending.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

First, to recap, here is a good story from CBS on what Trump said, including my take: "Trump said out loud what we have suspected all along: His agenda is to demolish the EPA. This is a wrecking ball approach that will throw the doors open to corporate polluters."

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

If you want to give money to someone fighting this, consider Environmental Protection Network or any other group fighting this insanity. EPN is a network of hundreds of former EPA staff who volunteer their time to make sure the public knows the facts. www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/donate/

And Speak Up! Most people get their news from people they know, on social media or otherwise. They aren't hearing about this. Let them know!

So what do WE do? If this pisses you off, as it should, let your members of congress know. The Trump Administration’s attacks on EPA are an unlawful overreach of presidential authority. EPA is funded by bipartisan appropriations bills. This is Congress' constitutional role. They are failing.

America’s bedrock environmental laws cannot be undone without congressional approval, which is why the Trump administration is instead focused on firing the people that put the laws into action.

This is why they are doing it: "We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”
www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/20241030_vou...

Despite having to deal with an ever-increasing array of environmental threats, EPA’s has fewer staff today than it had under President George W Bush. Gutting EPA will cost taxpayers more than they save by shutting down essential services that will have to be replaced.

Here's a map on where EPA is putting people to work across the country replacing lead pipes, cleaning up toxic contamination, and building clean water projects.
www.epa.gov/invest/inves...